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danielhewson (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
was she wrong about it
globaltraveller (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
I'm still trying to work out why she signed the SEA? You say look at her Bruges speech. Many of the criticisms in it were policies and institutions directly provided for by the SEA she signed.So when she signed the SEA, was she wrong about it (did she change her mind between 1986 and 1988?), did she misunderstand what it provided for? Or was she a liar?If it is any of these three reasons (and it has to be), then surely that violates many of the assumptions her supporters make about her.
danielhewson (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
May I suggest you check out her Bruges speech
danielhewson (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
At the end of her reign the number of the working class who voted for her was up from the beginning of her reign. Remember Tony Blair talking about Mondeo man?
TheGreenRooster (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
Thatcher was an evil bitch who impoverished the working class.
globaltraveller (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
No excuse for being rotten to him for years on end. Why didn't she sack him earlier if he was too pro-Europe for her liking? He'd always been pro-EU and never made any bones about it. Yet she kept him on as Foreign Secretary.
globaltraveller (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
So why did she sign the SEA in 1986, which explicitly paved the way for economic and monetary union? That and a whole host of other powers over justice, police and home affairs? Mrs Thatcher did more than any other Prime Minister to grant the EU sovereignty and power at the expense of the national parliaments of member states? And, then she had the brass neck to bitterly complain about it, when it is something she sanctioned when she signed the Single European Act.
danielhewson (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
According to Charles Powell she thought Howe was having too much fun playing in the sandpit of the E.U.
danielhewson (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
She wanted to create a free trading zone in the E.U. not a superstate
danielhewson (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
If you read her book 'Statecraft' she advocates leaving the E.U. |
